And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

Therefore when you sent for me, I came without any objection. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”

Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

“Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,